Post #51396 by tikifish on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 7:46 PM

Miss B, it is easy to understand your confusion. Although this is a forum specifically about buying and selling tiki, and often those are Ebay items, a lot of Tiki Centralites don't take kindly to people signing up just to advertise their wares in their very first post.

If you think about it logically, if every Ebay seller came on here every time they put something tiki on Ebay, this forum would just become 'Ebay 2: Electric Boogaloo' and not be of much use to anyone, as it would just be a carbon copy of the 'tiki' category Ebay, which we are all familiar with, and browse frequently anyway.

Generally, this forum is used buy people who have already been active on Tiki Central, have joined the discussions, have shown a bit of community spirit, and aren't here just to make a buck.

PLEASE don't get me wrong, you may not be like that, and your next post may tell us all of some long lost tiki bar, or a great drink recipe, but when your first post out of the gate is selling, as opposed to chatting and sharing, people get miffed.

However, these 'unwritten rules' are not posted (perhaps a bit unfairly), and many people have to learn this bit of TC etiquette the hard way. Some have stayed and enjoyed the ride, others have left in a huff. I hope you will be of the former.

Hanford - perhaps we need to have a bit of a warning in the 'collecting tiki' forum description to this effect? I'm sure many of these people don't mean to offend. They are just following the instructions on the topic thread that say you can post anything you have to sell.